Car-fender.



N0. 691,3l5. Patented Jan. 14, I902.

E. W. JETER.

CAB FENDER,

(Application filed Apr. 27, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES ATENT FFICE.

EDMOND W. JETER, OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA.

CAR-FENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 691,315, dated January 14, 1902 Application filed April 27, 1901. Serial No. 57,673. (No model.)

T0 to whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDMOND W. J ETER, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Atlanta, in the county of Fulton and State of Georgia, have made a certain new and useful Improvementin Car-Fenders; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the said invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a device of the class specified in which the parts of the human body generally dragged in contact with the pavement when a person is caught by a fender will be elevated from contact with the said pavement, and other improvements, which will be fully understood after a perusal of the specification.

The invention consists of the device hereinafter fully specified.

The invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, as follows: t

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the fender. Fig.2 is a front elevation thereof, and Fig. 3 is a plan.

Inthe figures like reference characters are uniformly employed in the designation of corresponding parts in all the views.

This device is attachedltothe trucks of the car and also elastically to the dashboard of the platform, the attachment to the trucks being, however, by means of a comparatively slender iron rod, or two thereof, which are ca-- pable of fiexure, so as to relieve the fender of truck motion.

10 represents pipes forming a support or main frame of the fender, which are secured to the truck by long bolts 11, which are slightly flexible and adjustable by means of long threads on their back ends, as shown in Fig. 1.

12 is a spring typifying an elastic connection of any kind with the dashboard of a car, whereby the car may move upon its springs without moving the fender and yet allow sufficient elasticity of the fender so that it will upon the superposition of a person or other abnormal weight be depressed so that the rollers 13, carried upon some convenient portion of the fender, preferably as hereinafter specified, may come into contact with the pavement. Secured between the bars 10, near their tops, is a rod 14:, a like rod 15 being secured near the bottom, and below the rod 15 is a U-shaped rod 16, which has its free ends screw-threaded for substantially their entire length and nuts thereon, the said free ends passing through the posts 10 with a nut on either side thereof, so that the main body of the said rod 16 may be moved to and from the said posts 10 and adjust the normal position of the fender proper, as hereinafter specified.

17 represents arms which are pivotally secured to the rod 15 and lie across the rod 16, extending forwardly therefrom and having their ends at 18 bent downwardly and inwardly, receiving near said bent ends the bolt19, which serves to carry the rollers 13 and also for the pivotal connection of the for ward extension of the fender, which consists of a U-shaped bar 20, having loops in its end by which it is fulcrumed on the said bolt 19, resting across the upper sides of the extensions at 18. On this U-shaped bar 20 are a number of collars 21, which serve as rollers and being made of soft material are intended principally as buffers, being also employed, incidentally, as spacers for the forward ends of the chains 22, which typify a flexible basket structure. These chains are connected at their back ends with the hereinbefore-described bar 14, suitable spacingand buffer rings 23, of soft material, being also placed thereon. It is preferable that a chain 24, Figs. 1 and 3, extend between the bolt 19 and the bar. 14, forming a further brace against too great a depression of the arms 17. The cord 25 (shown only in Fig. 1) serves to elevate the fender when the running direction of the car is changed.

It is obvious that when an object of considerable weight falls upon the chains 22 or such other elements as the basket might be composed of the U-shaped bar 20 will swing upon its pivotal connection with the rod 19, and so be elevated, carrying with it and raising out of danger such members of the person being carried by the fender as would other- Wise be dragged between the fender and the pavement.

It is obvious that a movement of the rod 16, upon which bear the arms 17, to or from the lower ends of the posts 10 will depress or elevate the said arms as to their normal running position. Thus the normal distance between the front edge of the fender and the pavement will be readily adjusted.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. In a car-fender, a vertical frame connected to the car-platform, a frame pivotally secured by its back edge to the lower end of said frame, a flexible apron connected by and suspended between its respective ends to said vertical frame near its upper end and said pivoted frame near its front edge and adjusting-screws set in the lower end of said vertical frame and bearing their ends on said pivoted frames.

2. In a car-fender, a pair of bars held in relation to each other by connecting cross-bars, one a short distance from their upper ends and another a short distance from their lower ends, a bar connecting each of said bars near its lower end with practical rigidityto the car-trucks and an elastic connection on the upper ends of said bars adapted to engage the dashboard of the car, and permit movement of the car vertically relative to said bars, a U-shaped frame pivotally secured to the lower cross-bar,a second and smaller U- shaped frame pivotally secured to the front edge of the aforesaid U shaped frame and forming a foldable forward extension thereof, means for limiting the downward movement of the front edges of both U-shaped frames, and a flexible apron secured to and suspended between the front edge of the smaller U- shaped frame and the upper cross-bar frame.

3. In a car-fender, a pair of bars held in relation to each other by connecting cross-bars, one a short distance from their upper ends and another a short distance from their lower ends, a'bar connecting each of said bars near its lower end with practical rigidity to the car-trucks and an elastic connection on the upper ends of said bars adapted to engage the dashboard of the car, and permit movement of the car vertically relative to said bars, a U-shaped frame consisting of side bars pivotally secured to the lower cross-bar, and a tie-bar secured between their free ends, the said ends extending beyond said tie-bar and being turned inwardly to form stops, a second and smaller U-shaped frame pivotally secured to the front edge of the aforesaid U- shaped frame and forming a foldable forward extension thereof, means for limiting the downward movement. of the front edges of both U-shaped frames and a flexible apron secured to and suspended between the front edge'of the smaller U-shaped frame and the upper cross-bar aforesaid.

4:. In a car-fender, a pair of bars held in relation to each other by connecting cross-bars, one a short distance from their upper ends and another a short distance from their lower ends, a bar connecting each of said bars near its lower end with practical rigidity to the car-trucks and an elastic connection on the upper ends of said bars adapted to engage the dashboard of the car, and permit move: ment of the car vertically relative to said bars, a U-shaped frame pivotally secured to the lower cross-bar, a second and smaller U- shaped frame pivotally secured to the said tie-bar and projecting forwardly and lying on the inwardly-turned ends of said side bars of the aforesaid U-shaped frame and forming a foldable forward extension thereof, and a flexible apron secured to and suspended between the front edge of the smaller U shaped frame and the upper cross-bar aforesaid and one or more flexible strands connected to and suspended in or even with the said apron between said upper cross-bar and the front bar of the said larger U-shaped frame.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDMOND W. JETER.

Vitnesses:

Enwn. P. W001), A. P. Woon. 

